Fined

IKO Industries Ltd. was fined $60,000 this week for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was injured in the company’s Brampton facility, according to a government news release.
The worker was investigating a problem on one of the production lines that manufactures asphalt shingles on March 24, 2011. The worker put a gloved hand on a sheet of asphalt that was being processed, according to the release. His hand was pulled into a roller and exposed to a pot of tar. THe worker suffered third-degree burns.
The Calgary-based company pleaded guilty in front of Justice of the Peace Hilda Weiss Tuesday to failing to ensure that the line’s rollers were equipped with a guard or other device to prevent access to the pinch point.
Brampton’s Provincial Offences Court on Ray Lawson Boulevard also imposed a 25 per cent victim fine surcharge, as required under the Provincial Offences Act. The surcharge money is used to help victims of crime.